Boris Borcic wrote: >>> I believe that in this case native linguistic intuition made the decision... >> >> The reason has nothing to do with language. Guido didn't >> want sum() to become an attractive nuisance by *appearing* >> to be an obvious way of joining a list of strings, while >> actually being a very inefficient way of doing that. > > sum() *is* exactly an attractive nuisance by *appearing* to be an obvious way > of > chaining strings in a list (without actually being one).
in what language the word "sum" an appropriate synonym for "concatenate" ? </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
